Chapter 14. Administering and Maintaining the System

Maintaining and upgrading the system is equally important as implementing it. A well-maintained system will give the highest return on investments. This chapter provides a high-level overview of administering and maintaining your Alfresco implementation. It includes information about backing up your valuable content, upgrading your system to newer versions, managing sub-systems using JConsole/JMX, and understanding utilities of the bulk import tool. You will also find general maintenance tips, such as maintaining logfiles, and periodically updating your admin password.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to:

• Export and import your personal or departmental information
• Back up your data on a regular basis for storage and retrieval
• Perform general maintenance tasks, such as examining logfiles
• Set up replication for high availability
• Upgrade your Alfresco application to newer versions
• Managing sub-systems using JConsole...